There is a long list of rare neuromuscular diseases. Nonetheless, there are a few that you are likely to see in the ED, that are relevant to Emergency Medicine because they require timely diagnosis and treatment.
What’s in the name – why “Massive Hemorrhage Protocol” and not “Massive Transfusion Protocol”?
Dig deeper into the simple 5-step ED approach to AKI outlined in part 1, concentrating on the edematous patient, and discuss the timing, volume and IV crystalloid of choice in AKI patients as well as dialysis indications and timing in light of the recent STARRT-AKI trial.
Great podcast by Dr. Arun Sayal and Dr. Dale Dantzer!
How comfortable are we in the ED charting anything but ‘pre-renal AKI’ in the patient who’s creatinine surprisingly comes back sky high?
We clear up the confusing balance between thrombosis and bleeding in liver patients, the elusive diagnosis of portal vein thrombosis, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis diagnosis and treatment and some tips and tricks on paracentesis
You might be surprised to learn that the prevalence of critical cardiac disease in infants is almost as high as the prevalence of infant sepsis.
For such a large organ, EM physicians spend proportionally little time thinking about the liver.
